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I have a W2k19 VM I created as a patched image. Idea is to patch it monthly. Shut it down and clone it. Then sysprep the clone and copy the disk to the Image Service. Then I can create VM’s off of it. I will repeat the colne after patching the ~master image monthly in order to keep a patched disk ready to spin up VM’s from. We are using AHV, version 5.10. Mt question is the “CLONE” a full, independant copy of the VM ? TIA -S

Hi community, I’m fairly new to interacting with Nutanix for automation and was hoping my VM build task would be a simple process but I’ve hit a wall with the guest tools install. I’m building a RDS environment where I need as little human interaction as I can get to make administration easier so I’m building my host VM using SCCM. I’ve multiple good reasons for approach but its mainly in support for application deployment via happening at build time. I’ve tried to install the guest tools manually but I believe they are failing due to the files being copied from a mounted ISO which has some dynamically created certificates involved so this isn’t going to work. I can see the ISO can be mounted using the API calls but every reference I’ve seen looks to need  a username/password passing in the script and I’m not overly keen in hard coding creds into script. Most of what i’ve seen is a few years old so I wondered if there has been any changes to the approach to mounting guest tools? It

Below are the top knowledge base articles for the month of May 2020. KB 7503 - G6, G7 platforms - DIMM Error handling and replacement policy KB 4116 - Alert - A1187, A1188 - ECCErrorsLast1Day, ECCErrorsLast10Days KB 1540 - What to do when /home partition or /home/nutanix directory is full KB 7604 - Disk space usage for root on Controller VM has exceeded 80% KB 4141 - Alert - A1046 - PowerSupplyDown KB 4409 - LCM: (LifeCycle Manager) Troubleshooting Guide KB 4158 - Alert - A1104 - PhysicalDiskBad KB 1113 - HDD/SSD Troubleshooting KB 2090 - AHV | Host and Guest Networking KB 2473 - NCC Health Check: cvm_memory_usage_check KB 8792 - NCC checks: same_hypervisor_version_check, duplicate_cvm_ip_check, same_timezone_check, esx_sioc_status_check, power_supply_check, orphan_vm_snapshot_check giving ERR KB 4519 - NCC Health Check: check_ntp KB 2486 - NCC Health Check: cvm_mtu_check KB 4273 - NCC Health Check: aged_third_party_backup_snapshot_check KB 3357 - NCC Health Check: ipmi_

Below are new knowledge base articles published on the week of May 24-30, 2020. KB 9390 - Alert - A130338 - ServiceBadScore KB 9431 - LCM operation on ESXi hosts fails with "LAG is configured with X uplinks however there are Y NICs added in the teaming policy" Note: You may need to log in to the Support Portal to view some of these articles.

Giving thought to change your replication factor from 2 to 3? What are the impacts and things to consider?   First, let’s take a look at what replication factor is. Redundancy factor is a configurable option that allows a Nutanix cluster to withstand the failure of nodes or drives in different blocks.   By default, Nutanix clusters have redundancy factor 2, which means they can tolerate the failure of a single node or drive.  So RF3 means cluster can tolerate the failure of 2 nodes or drive… Basic Maths isn’t it?   Redundancy factor 3 has the following requirements: Redundancy factor 3 can be enabled at the time of cluster creation or after creation too. A cluster must have at least five nodes for redundancy factor 3 to be enabled. For guest VMs to tolerate the simultaneous failure of two nodes or drives in different blocks, the data must be stored on containers with replication factor 3. Controller VMs must be configured with a minimum of 28 GB(20 GB default+8 GB for the featur

New with Nutanix Move.  Deplyed Nutanix Move and need to set IP up.  Selecting new Nutanix-Move VM > Console »  move login is required, which was not asked to set during MOVE setup. What log-on info needed to be set and where, or is there a standard logon there?

Dear all We run 2 Clusters with each 3 ESXi and 2 AHV Storage-only Nodes successfully.  Now I want to get rid of VMWare, but all vms were built with vmware, of course I see them in prism. Did anyone ever just deinstall ESXi and replaced it with AHV in a running environment? Alternatively I could move all urgent vms to one Cluster and than install Nutanix from scratch and afterwards migrate the vms to the Nutanix only Cluster. thanks and best regards, Claudia

Below are new knowledge base articles published on the week of May 17-23, 2020. KB 4781 - A Windows 7 or Windows 10 User VM Fails to Power On with an NVIDIA vGPU Profile in ESXi 6.5b KB 9218 - Prism Element alternative UPN login fails KB 9357 - Oops - Server error when updating Container settings in Prism KB 9373 - AHV | 10Gbps NIC shows as 1Gbps despite auto negotiation enabled on Intel X550 NIC cards KB 9394 - Objects - Deployment might fail with Asymmetric routing / Policy Based routing configured in environment | Deployed cluster greyed out | IAM service is not healthy KB 9400 - AHV | Troubleshooting Virtual Machine boot failures KB 9403 - LEAP - Entity Sync tasks generated continously after PC upgrade to 5.16.1 KB 9407 - [Objects] Objects 2.1 Darksite Deployment failing at deploying metadata store KB 9420 - /tmp filled up by /tmp/paramiko_logs file KB 9422 - Error updating the current checks parameter. Health check schedule interval is invalid. KB 9425 - Official Guidan

Below are new knowledge base articles published on the week of May 10-16, 2020. KB 9304 - Object Store Deployment Failure: type[CREATE]:code: 400, message: Primary MSP deployment in failed state status_code: 400 KB 9329 - ESXi | 1 click upgrade failing with 'Could not find a trusted signer' KB 9333 - Prism Central - Adding same email address under both "report settings" as well as "schedule settings" causes duplicate emails to be sent to recipient KB 9349 - [Nutanix Objects][Common Deployment Failure Scenario] Failed to create Envoy VM | Prism Central is not able to reach MSP and Envoy VMs or slow image download KB 9354 - Error: Node XXX cannot be removed: Cluster needs at least 5 usable nodes KB 9368 - Karbon UI stuck at loading in case of old browser version KB 9377 - [Karbon] Darksite Deployment fails in Proxy Environment in ETCD Deployment Stage KB 9383 - AHV | manage_ovs tool shows error "Failed to send RPC request. Retrying." when trying to change bridge configuration KB 9389 - D

Can any one list out how many types of Foundation are there eg Foundation Pro, bare metal ..etc. 

What are the 3rd party snapshots? Third-Party snapshots are generated by a third-party backup tool over API calls to our storage. The Nutanix system does not manage this type of snapshots and will keep the snapshots until it receives a deletion instruction from the third-party tool.   The NCC health check aged_third_party_backup_snapshot_check checks the cluster for dangling third-party backup snapshots that may be present for a protection domain. If a third-party backup snapshot has existed in the system for longer than the specified period, this check will raise an alert. These backup snapshots are snapshots that are generated from 3rd party backups (Veeam, Commvault, Rubrik, HYCU, etc.).    The check passes if third-party backup snapshots are not present in the cluster longer than the configured threshold. The default threshold is 7 days, but this threshold value can be modified. The threshold can range from 1 day to 365 days. For more information, examples and solution check out K

Should you see message similar to “Third-party backup snapshots are present in the cluster longer than the configured threshold.” and wonder where it comes from keep on reading — you’re in for a treat!The NCC health check aged_third_party_backup_snapshot_check checks the cluster for dangling third-party backup snapshots that may be present for a protection domain. If a third-party backup snapshot has existed in the system for longer than the specified period, this check will raise an alert. These backup snapshots are snapshots that are generated from 3rd party backups (Veeam, Commvault, Rubrik, HYCU, etc.).The check passes if third-party backup snapshots are not present in the cluster longer than the configured threshold. The default threshold is 7 days, but this threshold value can be modified. The threshold can range from 1 day to 365 days.Administrators may specify how long a third-party snapshot is expected to be present in the cluster through Prism UI. This check is based on the b

Hi Folks,   I have a few machines I would like to convert from IDE to SCSI.   I understand this can be done with acli. The procedure is to clone the ide disk and replace it for the VM.   nutanix@cvm$ acli vm.disk_create <vm_name> clone_from_vmdisk=<vmdisk_UUID> bus=scsi   However, I’d like to do this in PowerShell given I’ve already started developing down that track. I have PowerShell cmdlets to snapshot and shutdown the VM which are recommended steps before performing this task.   I didn’t see a cmdlet to perform the clone and replacement, so I turned to the REST API. I am fairly new to Nutanix to I wanted to get some feedback on whether this is the right approach or at least that its not going to break anything other than my test VM. $uri = "https://$ntxCluster/api/nutanix/v2.0/vms/$($vm.vmid)/disks/attach"$body = '{"uuid":"abcdefg-08h3-4i44-95j0-kl44m82no758","vm_disks":[{"vm_disk_clone":{"disk_address":{"device_bus":"SCSI","device_index":123}}}]}'$headers=@{}$headers.A

As the title said, does anyone know about this interface is used for?

Hello, removal of the disk on a node has started automatically, and more than a day has passed and the percentage is stopped at 97%, what can I do ??

Below are new knowledge base articles published on the week of May 3-9, 2020. KB 9220 - Changing ownership of applications, blueprints and users to other projects in CALM not supported. KB 9326 - "Open in Prism" button on the Insights Portal is deactivated KB 9340 - [Objects][MSP] Troubleshooting Deployment Failures due to docker pull issues KB 9341 - Calm: Cloning ESXi Template fails with "The resource 'xxx' is in use. com.vmware.vim.vpxd.dvs.portinuse.label" KB 9342 - Genesis crash-looping due to missing entries in iso_whitelist.json file Note: You may need to log in to the Support Portal to view some of these articles.

Here is my Code Snip [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::ServerCertificateValidationCallback = {$true}$body = "{`"kind`":`"vm`", `"filter`":`"vm_name==.*VMName*`"}"$username = "Admin";$password = ConvertTo-SecureString –String "AdminPassword" –AsPlainText -Force$credential = New-Object –TypeName "System.Management.Automation.PSCredential" –ArgumentList $username, $password$base64AuthInfo = [Convert]::ToBase64String([Text.Encoding]::ASCII.GetBytes(("{0}:{1}" -f $username,$password)))$response = Invoke-RestMethod 'https://PRISMIP:9440/api/nutanix/v3/vms/list' -Method 'POST' -Headers @{Authorization=("Basic {0}" -f $base64AuthInfo)} -Body $body -Credential $credential$response | ConvertTo-Json And my Response is  Invoke-RestMethod : {"state": "ERROR", "code": 401, "message_list": [{"reason": "AUTHENTICATION_REQUIRED", "message": "Authentication required.", "details": "Basic realm=\"Intent Gateway Login Required\""}], "api_version": "3.1"}At C:\Scripts\Untitled1.ps1:9 char:13+ $response = In

I am struggling to get my VM to unmount the ISO via the PC v3 API.  I’m performing a GET, to get the VM Info, I’ve attempted to update the vm with data_source_reference removed, PC updates, but the iso is still attached.  I see different references with V1 on PE, but can’t seem to do it via v3.  anyone had any luck?

Hi all I have a 3 nodes cluster with RF2. I keep getting the following critical alert: Cluster can not tolerate 1 node failure(s) and guarantee available rebuild capacity Cluster cannot tolerate 1 node failure. Current usage of 6552243087527 bytes exceeds max limit of 9010877278002 bytes. I’m not sure which storage this error is about, the numbers in the error is way to big to what the cluster actually has. I’ve attached screenshot of the storage of the cluster. Any help will be much appreciated.  

I have exported list of all snapshots running on AHV in our environment. On a few snapshots, VM name is empty. I suspect, this is because VM has been deleted without deleting snapshot. Now how to delete such snapshots? Below is example: Snapshot name is “removing ngt” VM-Name Snapshot-Name Creation-Time   servername Test Snapshot 3/19/2019 11:00     removing ngt 2/6/2020 1:00    

We are planning to connect 2 stacked Catalyst 9300 to a Nutanix Cluster. While doing research I found a document recommending the Nexus 9300 and specifying that the Catalyst 9300 wouldn't meet requirements for the Data Center. There was no reasoning for this and I would like to know why the Catalyst 9300 switches are not recommended. Thanks in advance, Ingrid

Find the best way to change all of the administrators password on Nutanix. This what I have done: #Changing the admin acct of PE ncli user reset-password user-name=admin password='$NewPassWD$@pe' #Changing the root acct of AHV for i in `hostips`;do echo "--$i--";ssh root@$i 'echo -e "$NewPassWD$@ahv" | passwd --stdin root';done #Changing the nutanix acct of CVM echo "$NewPassWD$@cvm" | sudo passwd --stdin nutanix #Change the ADMIN acct of the IPMI for i in `hostips`; do                 ssh root@$i 'for id in `/ipmitool user list |grep 'ADMIN '|cut -d" " -f1`; do                 echo $id;                 /ipmitool user set password $id "ADMINXXXXXXX";                 done' ; done  ncc health_checks system_checks default_password_check   https://portal.nutanix.com/kb/6153

I share my software to collect information associated with a Nutanix cluster with AHV hypervisor. Link to download NIACtool v2.1

In the Nutanix Cluster upgrade there are five options Upgrade Software AOS File Server Hypervisor NCC Foundation so what is the correct sequence to upgrade whole stack of nutanix software?  

Hi, I am trying to attach a vdisk to a VM. So far I have found that the only way to create and attach a new vdisk to VM is via this API  POST /vms/{uuid}/disks/attach I am trying using this curl expression: curl -X POST --header 'Content-Type: application/json' --header 'Accept: application/json' -d '{  "uuid": "IDEMPOTENT_UUID",  "vm_disks": [    {      "is_cdrom": false,      "is_empty": false,      "is_scsi_pass_through": false,      "is_thin_provisioned": false,      "vm_disk_create": {        "size": 1,        "storage_container_uuid": "CONTAINER_UUID"      }    }  ]}' 'https://10.10.10.10:9440/api/nutanix/v2.0/vms/VM_UUID/disks/attach' \--insecure --basic --user obfuscated_username:obfuscated_password The task fails and error is: “InvalidArgument: Invalid disk size 0”. What am I missing here? Thanks for your time, Ivars